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A MESSAGE FROM PASTOR
MARIDEL
T.S.
Eliot, in his wonderful
poem, “The Love Song of J. Alfred
Prufrock,” raises the question: “Why
should men love the church? She tells
them of death and other unpleasant facts.”
I
can't get beyond the
reality that All Saints is a special Sunday for lots and lots of
reasons. It isn't just about the "communio
sanctorum," the idea that there is a community where they all reside
waiting for us to ask favors and blessings. It
is the reality that some of those who have
been called to be saints and answered the call have touched my life ...
lots of
lives ... and have made a difference in the world.
We
have the church to thank
for that, I think. It certainly can be
weak and frail. We would like it to be
so much better than it is, less trivial, dealing less with the mundane
and more
with what we think really matters. Except
that it has to deal with us, and who
can be more mundane or trivial than we human beings.
The church has proclaimed that
Christ did not
disdain to die for us, mundane and trivial though we be.
A number of years ago, Quaker
scholar and preacher, the late Dr. D. Elton Trueblood, wrote a
wonderful book
which has become a Christian classic, The Company of the Committed. This is what he wrote: ...Read More
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